Title: Mildred Pierce
Year: 1945
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Director: Michael Curtiz
Writer: Ranald MacDougall
based on the novel of James M. Cain
Music: Max Steiner
Cinematography: Ernest Haller
Cast:
Joan Crawford
Jack Carson
Zachary Scott
Ann Blyth
Bruce Bennett
Eve Arden
Butterfly McQueen
Moroni Olsen
Jo Ann Marlowe
Lee Patrick
Veda Ann Borg
Rating: 6.9/10
Joan Crawford’s Oscar-crowning star vehicle, directed by Michael Curtiz, the Oscar-winner from CASABLANCA (1942), based on a novel from James M. Cain and centers on the checkered life of our titular heroine, a twice-married woman, a mother of two, an entrepreneur starts her restaurant business ex nihilo.
Ostensibly begins with a murder in the witching hour, the last word of the victim Monte Beragon (Scott), whom we later would know is Mildred’s second husband, is an…